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What do i need to be a good DJ?
June 6th, 2009 Posted by: admin
I want to make electronic music……
By: DJ PaulBert
By: DJ PaulBert
Tags: Dj Music, Electronic Music
June 7th, 2009 at 18:00
Turntables, headphones, some records and an ego the size of London. Go out with Lindsay Lohan, or have a famous father.
June 8th, 2009 at 11:05
Hold on there a second. DJs and producers are two different things. Many DJs produce. That’s a fact. But not all of them do. And not all producers do any DJing. So which one are you going to do, or are you doing both?
Contrary to popular belief, making trance or EDM in general is d**n hard to do well. Most people will tell you it sounds simple, so it must be simple to make. They could not be more wrong. Most of their information comes from people with superficial knowledge, or those who have no idea what they’re talking about at all.
The main difficulty in making good trance is that first of all, a lot of stuff has been done already, so you kind of have to do a bit of a literature search sometimes, not that important though. Secondly, you have to know how to use the programs, which have very steep learning curves. Thirdly, you have to know how to design novel sounds. In the past, people used similar sounds quite often. That doesn’t fly anymore. We look for novelty in sound design today as well as the other factors. Finally, you have to learn to EQ/mix properly. This may end up being 99% of your efforts. Novel sounds have no universal protocol for mixing, so you have to be very creative in how you EQ/mix it into your track. You can get an idea of what I’m talking about by picking up a copy of the Mixing Engineer’s Handbook. This should teach you the basics, but you cannot learn to mix by reading, especially since the MEH doesn’t teach you how to EQ every synth you could possibly make. In fact, you cannot learn to produce trance by reading at all. While doing your homework helps, it takes extensive experimentation and creativity to actually produce a good trance track. Most people never do enough studying or don’t possess the kind of talent (it’s a different kind of talent than what you’d be listening for in other genres that’s most important here). You should know your synths and equipment inside-out or you have a pretty high chance of being doomed to mediocrity.
I’m mentoring a few neophyte producers right now, and most of them come in thinking they’re going to be the next DJ Tiesto because they have experience in other genres of music. They’ve all realized by now that that’s not the case. Producing EDM in general isn’t for the faint at heart, and often I have to press those guys to keep working at it. You encounter hardware/software problems, sound quality problems, and quite a few issues where synths simply don’t work together. Sometimes, just moving a knob on the synthesize a few ticks can make a big difference. Same goes for the EQ. If you work hard at it, and you have the creativity to manipulate technology as well as musical notes and instruments, you should be well on your way, but I cannot guarantee you’ll be the next Sean Tyas.
The best programs you might want to use include: Cubase, Sonar, and Ableton among some others. Reaper can work as well. You’ll need VSTs to bolster your music production capabilities. Which ones you use depends on what kind of sounds and effects you want. Many are very expensive (as expensive as those DAWs I listed). You can, however, get decent results using free synths. I recommend the Synth1 as a free VSTi. It’s modeled on the Clavia Nord Lead.